Leading and Supporting Pacific Research

The New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research is a national institute to promote and support excellence in Pacific Research.

A collaboration between the University of Auckland, Otago University and the Auckland University of Technology the NZIPR includes New Zealand’s leading research universities and also includes New Zealand’s largest networks of Pacific researchers.

Together the university partners bring expansive and unique Pacific research capacity and relationships, as well as educating three quarters of New Zealand’s Pacific students and employing ninety percent of New Zealand’s academics of Pacific Island descent.

Tourism has been identified as a key economic opportunity for South Pacific nations, both in country and also internationally with entities such as the World Bank focussing upon the need for these smaller nations to develop sustainable tourism that draws upon their...

The New Zealand Institute for Pacific Research is funding a major study to assess the feasibility of a Polynesian pathway to a more sustainable, low-cost, energy future without electricity grids. The project is being undertaken by the New Zealand Institute of Economic...

By Joshua Lafoai, APIA (Asia Pacific Report/Samoa Observer/Pacific Media Watch) A research paper by a National University of Samoa lecturer warns media freedom in Samoa still faces many challenges. Media freedom has had a long, proud history in Samoa. Struggling...

Many of us do not realise just how important vegetable and fruit eating is to our health. In the Pacific, as with other parts of the world, lack of vegetable and fruit eating is a key factor in high rates of diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. This phenomena is...

In 2016, the Samoan Ombudsman, Maiava Iulia Toma, announced a national enquiry into violence against women, and called for churches to be involved in this.[1] Alongside this, the Ministry of Women Community and Social Development in Samoa has recently presented the...

By Christina Stringer and Sisikula Sisifa Agriculture remains the backbone of Pacific Island economies. However, over the past decade, traditional cash crops such as copra have provided insufficient financial returns to local farmers. Subsequently governments and...